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With the opening of frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt Evan Moffitt On 10 May, you will unveil Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park in New York: a sculptural installation and monument to the world’s dying forests. How did you first become engaged with the issue of deforestation and how will the work approach the specific ecological concerns of New York?  Maya Lin My earth-based, site-specific outdoor works, such as the Storm King Wavefield [2007–08] or the earth line drawing I recently installed at Princeton University [ The Princeton Line, 2018], are embedded in the earth and of a...

Print In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature. Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 — and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd — famed architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a conc...